implying Google has customer service

You don’t need to crack anything, pirate your ebooks (I’ve recently had good results from annas-archive.org for fiction books) and send them to kindle as personal documents.

Corporations are not people, no matter what the Supreme Court says.

no

I feel like there’s probably significant overlap between the people who kept it from filling up with swastikas and the people who left for lemmy

Studios want to hire actors for a single day’s pay then use their image in whatever “AI” generated horrors they feel like forever

If you’re gonna read a long ass novel about the coming climate catastrophe it should be Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson

ten billion percent

Treat them like ebikes, always blame the car in a crash, simple as.

Neckbuds have all the disadvantages of wired and wireless headphones at the same time. You have the battery life and imperfect connection of Bluetooth plus you still have wires to get caught on things and pull the buds out of your ears.

The only game journalist I trust is James Stephanie Sterling and Denuvo sure as shit isn’t sending them a copy

Laptop and Chromebook are two very different things. A laptop is sufficient for any use case that doesn’t demand GPU power, but if you’re ever considering buying a “gaming” laptop, don’t. You can get a cheap laptop and a decent gaming desktop for the same price and they’ll last you longer and run better.

A Chromebook is just walled garden bullshit.

Common NPR L

Because I suspect that the “ideology” you’re actually worried about amounts to “gay people exist”

Iain M. Banks’ Culture

Cops will never help you

Mhm. Political ideologies. Which ones? (I ask in a very “states’ rights to do what?” tone)

He “tried” in a such a way as to appear to want to do good things without actually having to do them.

The Union’s medical technology is notably more advanced than the Federation’s, yes. Dr. Finn would have Pike up and walking in an afternoon.

The Union’s medical technology is notably more advanced than the Federation’s, yes. Dr. Finn would have Pike up and walking in an afternoon.